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Get Your Ducks in a Row is an 8-week cycle of new habits for living with intention, creativity, and love. 

From a self-help connoisseur: What I've learned about growing up, becoming an organized, caring, and wiser human being. 

• A book of habits, one habit each week
• Daily suggestions for how to manifest the new habit
• In a step-by-step format, with journaling and practices that take 20 minutes a day

The world needs us to act effectively, creatively, and compassionately - but we are often stuck in a repeating loop of ineffective routines and careless choices. We start a project but don't finish, or start the wrong project, or have great ideas but don't start at all. We let our personality take over and sabotage our interactions and our ambitions, or we get over-committed and can't serve at our best.

We use the term "Get your ducks in a row" to mean getting all of one's ideas, or resources, or team members lined up; to be efficient, organized, and prepared. But anyone who has seen a row of ducks running (waddling), flapping, and quacking chaotically across a yard knows that the actual process is fluid, erratic, noisy, and comical!

Here are practices to help you to think and act with persistence and imagination, grow wiser and more loving, have greater integrity, inspiration, and passion in your lifestyle, and be efficient, organized, and prepared - habits that move you (flapping and quacking) towards your best life. 

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

A note about time

WEEK 1: MAP YOUR PATH

A note about discernment:
Day 1: Journal Brainstorm
Day 2: Go on a Vision Walk
Day 3: Rosy Future
Day 4: Discern Your Values
Day 5: Discern Your Priorities
Day 6: Create a Base Map
Day 7: Review, and Start a Map Book

WEEK 2: PLOT ONE MOON AT A TIME

A note about the moon cycle:
Day 1: Journal Brainstorming
Day 2: Set Month Priority Goals
Day 3: Month Theme Vision Walk
Day 4: Create a Month Map
Day 5: Make a Priority Grid
Day 6: Create a Backwards Calendar
Day 7: Review, and Plan One Week

WEEK 3: SET INTENTIONS

A note about how to synchronize your brain
Day 1: Journal Brainstorming
Day 2: Set One Intention
Day 3: Practice Intention-Setting
Day 4: Identify Essential Intentions
Day 5: Set Priority Intentions
Day 6: Mini-Vision board
Day 7: Review, and Plan

WEEK 4: GIVE FULL EFFORT

Day 1: Journal & Set Intentions
Day 2: Create an Intention Ritual
Day 3: Remember Your Intentions
Day 4: Lean In with Eagerness
Day 5: Keep in Balance
Day 6: Cultivate Flow
Day 7: Review and Plan

WEEK 5: CENTER IN LOVE

A note about choosing
Day 1: Journal & Set Intentions
Day 2: Intend to Be Kinder
Day 3: Start a Kindness Journal
Day 4: Plan to Create New Community
Day 5: Brainstorm Generosity
Day 6: Brainstorm Equanimity
Day 7: Review and Plan

WEEK 6: LOVE THYSELF

Day 1: Journal & Set Intentions
Day 2: Daily Self-Kindness Challenge
Day 3: Plan Self-Care Habits
Day 4: Plan Life-Long Learning
Day 5: Plan Spiritual Nurturance
Day 6: Set Intentions for Self-Nurturance
Day 6: Know Yourself
Day 7: Review and Plan

WEEK 7: ACT IN LOVE

Day 1: Journal & Set Intentions
Day 2: Start a self-cultivation project
Day 2: Practice Virtue Habits
Day 3: Know your conflict style
Day 4: Equanimity / pro action
Day 5:
Day 6:
Day 7: Review and plan

WEEK 8: TRANSFORM YOUR WORLD

Day 1: Journal & Set Intentions
Day 2: Purpose and Missions
Day 3: Seek clearness on service
Day 5: Joy

POSTSCRIPT

A note about the moon cycle
Get Your Ducks in a Row Calendar